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Floivers in fmall, nearly fimple, clufters, about the ends of 

 the branches, white, minute. Rumphius relates that the 

 bark, and leaves, which may be preferved dry for the pur- 

 pofe, are of great ufe, inftead of alum, in dyeing, to improve 

 and fix the red colours afforded by feveral Indian woods and 

 roots. 



DECAGON. Add— See Dodecagon. 



DEC AND RI A, in Bo/any, from dmcc, ten, and a'jytp, a 

 man, the tenth clafs of the fexual or artificial fyftem of 

 Linnaeus, containing fuch plants as have ten feparate or dif- 

 tinft ftamens, in the fame flower with the pittil. Hence it 

 admits feveral papilionaceous plants fo circumftanced, not- 

 withftanding their natural affinity to others which belong to 

 the feventeenth clafs, Diadelphia-, the latter containing only 

 fuch as have fome fort of union or combination in their fila- 

 ments, and thofe filaments are moreover of a peculiarly flat 

 membranaceous ftrufture, altogether different from thofe of 

 proper decandrous flowers. (See Diadelphia.) The tenth 

 clafs is divided into five orders, and comprifes various na- 

 tural tribes or families, many of which have allies in other 

 parts of the fyflem, and feveral of the genera have fpecies 

 whofe parts of fructification are irregular in number. 



DECASPORA, from ^SKOL, ten, and tvo^u., feed. — Brown 

 Prodr. Nov. HoU. v. i. 548. — Clafs and order, Pentandria 

 Monogynia. Nat. Ord. Epacride^. Br. 



Eff. Ch. Calyx with two fcales at the bafe. Corolla bell- 

 fhaped ; limb loofely bearded. Stamens prominent. Berry 

 with ten feeds. 



A genus of elegant JJirubs, found on the fouth coafl of 

 New Holland, with fcattered llalked leaves, and terminal 

 drooping _y5>;7'fj- ol ^fi^Jloivers. Berries violet. 



I. D. dtjlicha, (Cyathodes difticha ; Labill. Nov. HolL 

 t. 8?.), and 2. D. thym'ifoTia, are all the fpecies mentioned. 



DEDDINGTON. In 181 1, the parifli contained 252 

 houfes, and 1296 perfons ; 635 being males, and 661 

 females. 



DEDHAM. In 181 1, the parifh contained 264 houfes, 

 and 1432 p?rfons ; 697 being males, and 735 females. 



DEEPING-IVIarket. In 1811, the parifh contained 

 l66 houfes, and 899 perfons ; 426 being males, and 473 

 females. 



DEER, in America, 1. 2, r. 674. Add — Alfo, a town- 

 fhip of Weflmoreland county, in Pennfylvania, having 

 2380 inhabitants. 



Deer Creek, a town of Ohio, in the county of Pickaway, 

 having 853 inhabitants. 



Deer IJle, col. 2, 1. I, r. 1057. 



DEERFIELD.l. 10, r. 1570; 1. 16, r. 1851. Add— 

 Alfo, a town of Ohio, in Portage county, having 394 

 inhabitants. — Alfo, a town of Ohio, in Rofs county, having 



629 perfons Alfo, a town of Ohio, in Warren county, 



having 1 181 perfons. 



DEERING, 1. 3, r. 1363. 



DEERINGIA, in Botany, in memory of Charles 

 Deering, M. D., author of the Flora Nottinghamenjis, a 

 botaniil commended by Dillenius. — Brown Prodr. Nov. 

 Holl. v. I. 413. — Clafs and order, Pentandria Monogynia. 

 3Jat. Ord. Holeracett, Linn. Amaranthi, Juff. 



Eff. Ch. Calyx m five deep fegments. Cor. none. 

 Stamens united by an entire membrane. Anthers of two 

 cells. Style deeply three-cleft. Berry fuperior, with many 

 feeds. 



I. D. cehfioides. Br. n. I. (Celofia baccata ; Retz. 

 Obf. fafc. 5. 23. Willd. Sp. PI. v. i. 1202.)— Native 

 wf New Holland and the Eaft Indies. A fmooth weak 

 Jhrub, with alternate leaves. Spikes axillary and terminal. 

 JiraSeas three to each flower. Fruit pulpy, tumid. 



D E R 



DELAGOA, col. 2, 1. 8, r. Kaffers. 



DELAWARE. Add— See United States. 



Delaware County, 1. 4, r. 14,734 — I" New York, 

 1. 2, r. 20,303 inhabitants, ^^ in 18 10 being flaves. 



Delaware Toivnjhip, 1. 2, r. 472. Add— Alfo, a 

 townfhip in Mercer county, in Pennfylvania, having 218 in- 

 habitants. — Alfo, a county of Ohio, containing feven town- 

 fhips, and 2000 inhabitants. — Alfo, a townfhip of the fame 

 county, having 200 inhabitants. 



DELI, a river of Perfia, in Schirvan, which has its 

 fource in the Lefgean hills, and difembogues into the Caf- 

 pian fea, about 20 miles S. of the Samur. 



DELMER, a townfhip of Tioga county, in Pennfyl- 

 vania, having 884 inhabitants. 



DELOS, col. 6, 1. 21, ;■. ruin. 



DEMBEA, col. 2, 1. 16, r. Gorgora. 



DE MURIS, John, for Muris, John de. 



DENBIGH, col. 2, 1. 45 and 46, r. 617 and 2714. 



DENBIGHSHIRE, col. 2, 1. 22, r. and 13,078 houfes, 

 inhabited by 64,240 perfons ; 31,129 being males, and 

 33,111 females: of whom 3447 families are employed in 

 trade and manufactures, and 7973 in agriculture. 



DENMARK, a town of America, in the diftri<ft of 

 Maine, and county of Oxford, containing 436 inhabitants. 



DENNIS, 1.4, r. 1739. 



DEPTFORD, col. 3, 1. 24, r. 1811, 19,833 ; 1. 25, 



'■• 3463- 



Deptford, in America, 1. 2, add — containing 2978 

 inhabitants. 



DERAGUZ, a diflria of KhorafTan, which, as well as 

 that of Cotchung, is fituated between Mefiied and Merv. 

 Cotchung is governed by an independent chieftain, who can 

 bring into the field 12,000 men, and who refides in the 

 town of Cotchung, 23 furfungs from Mefhed. The dif- 

 trift of Deraguz touches on the W. the dependencies of 

 Kelat ; on the N. the country of the Turkomans of Tak, 

 fometimes called Attok ; and on the E. a branch of the 

 Afhdur Koh. It is the property of Lutf Ali Khan, 

 whofe fubjects are reckoned the bravefl and mofl polite of 

 the natives of KhorafTan ; and the foil which they inhabit 

 is fo fruitful, that dry grain yields a hundred, and rice 

 four hundred fold. 



DERBANE, a beautiful little river which rifes in the 

 flate of Louifiana, and has its principal fource in N. lat. 

 32° 50'. W. long. 93° 10', and purfues nearly an eaflern 

 courfe of 60 miles, entering Ouachitta from the weft. It 

 is navigable about one-half of its courfe for large boats. 

 Its water, which is very pure, is fupplied from nume- 

 rous fprings by many creeks, that are bordered by fine 

 land. 



DERBY, col. 6, 1. 5 from the bottom, r. 2644, and 

 13,043. 



Derby, in America, in the cenfus of 18 10, probably 

 called Derley by miftake. It has 114 inhabitants. — L. ult. 

 r. 2051. Add— Alfo, a townfhip of Ohio, in Madifon 

 county, having 257 inhabitants — Alfo, a tovvnfliip of Ohio, 

 in the county of Pickaway, having 475 inhabitants. 



Derby. See D.\rby. 



DERBYSHIRE, 1. 12 and 13, r. 35,658, and 185,487. 



DEREHAM, East, 1. 4 and 5, r. 551 houfes, and 

 2888 inhabitants. 



Dereham, Wejl, a parifh in the hundred of Clackclofe, 

 having 58 houfes, and 428 inhabitants. 



DERLEY. See Derby. 



DERRY, in America, 1. 4, r- 2431 ; 1. 5, 134' 5 '• 7. 

 2283 ; 1- 8. ^380. DESERT, 



